Why Hitler was not use Gas attak at the end?

Question

at the end why Hitler was not use Gas atak to Russian army..

Answer 1

The German Army had no supplies of Gas Shells or cylinders, Hitler himself a victim of a British Gas attack in WW1 had decided not to use gas as it would only invite retaliation from the Allies.

For the ignorant: the type of gas used in the Extermination Camps "Xyclon B" was only suitable for use in confined spaces, it was delivered in tablet form through specially designed pipes into the shower rooms of the death camps.

It would not have worked in open battlefields so was therefore useless.
The Germans had developed various gases for military use but Hitler had forbidden there use, so no stockpiles of gas were ever available for use against Russians or Allies on any front.

Answer 2

There had been a discussion in the Reich Chancellery on one of Hitler's conferences regarding this matter. Hitler did indeed considered the use of poison gas. But his Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels swayed him away from it. First, Goebbels reasoned that poison gas is banned by the Geneva Convention on the Rules of Land Warfare. Second, Goebbels also said that if the German Army started to use poison gas in the war, Germany's enemies will also do the same. So, there is no real military advantage that can be gained by Germany on using it. Third, Hitler's Armament Minister Albert Speer made promises to Hitler that Germany's "wonder weapons (wunder waffen)" were successfully tested and will be available from the production lines soon, thus there is no need to use poison gas.

Answer 3

Hitler had been gassed during the First World War and refused to allow much production of chemical weapons.

Aside from the gases used for the Great War, German scientists also developed a new threat: nerve agents. The nerve agents Tabun, Sarin, and Somon were developed and the Allies had no protection against them.

Fortunately, by the time the nerve agents were developed, the German military had no means to effectively deploy them.
When Hitler finally allowed the use of chemical weapons, the Germans had no way to use them.

The American Army did suffer causalties from chemical weapons during the war. Ironically, it was due to mustard agents that were stowed on a cargo ship that was sunk by German bombers. The mustard agent, held in reserve in case Germany used chemical weapons, contaminated the waters off Italy and injured several American troops.

Answer 4

That's one thing Hitler did not do - order the use of poison gas in warfare.

He was a victim of it in the First World War, perceiving it as a horrible weapon. If he wouldn't have minded the soldiers of his enemies suffering gas attacks, he certainly would have minded his own soldiers suffering them in retribution. Gas is the sort of weapon that you only use when someone else uses it against you.

If gas was used against the Allied armies in WW2, the Axis would then have had the same thing done to them tenfold.

Answer 5

Don't really know for a fact, but Hitler, while serving in the German army in World War I, was gassed. Maybe, just maybe he had a guilty consciense.

Answer 6

Good question. We know he used gas on 11 million civilians (including 6 million Jews.)

Don't worry, where Hitler left off, Stalin and Hussein took it a step above, Ahmadinijad will make them look like little school boys when he thinks the time is ripe for some serious destruction to a defenseless civilian population. Why? Because that's what cowards do.

Answer 7

He was gassed in the first world war and he gave orders for its development but never wanted it used for fear of retaliation by the Allies.

Answer 8

couldn't produce it any decent quantities to effect the Russian army

Answer 9

He was looking at bigger things, like rockets. (Which is where both the US and the USSR got those scientist who eventually led them to space).